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Deteramot

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The Birth of a Universe
« on: August 29, 2010, 04:08:31 pm »
There is a legitimate theory that the universe exists as a program in an extraordinarily powerful computer. It's because of the myriad ways the universe cheats as we move through it. Things don't exist until we sense them, for example.

The point of all this is....

If this theory is true, and the universe is a program on a computer... then perhaps DF is that program. After all, it's slowly building toward being an entire simulated universe, with fully simulated physics.

Weigh in with your thoughts.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 04:16:20 pm »
Maybe we live in DF from the future. :D
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 04:30:30 pm »
Nah.... Not nearly enough &.
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Quote from: DuncanFrost on December 02, 2007, 04:42:00 am
I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful.

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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 04:49:42 pm »
Quote from: Deteramot on August 29, 2010, 04:30:30 pm
Nah.... Not nearly enough &.

We just haven't dug deep enough yet.
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Do you always look at it in ASCII?

You get used to it, I don't even see the ASCII.  All I see is blacksmith, miner, goblin.

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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2010, 04:52:29 pm »
Quote from: Deteramot on August 29, 2010, 04:30:30 pm
Nah.... Not nearly enough &.
Have you heard of Apple and Microsoft?
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2010, 06:27:09 pm »
What if we're all just hairs in a dwarve's beard, man...
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2010, 11:47:52 pm »
Quote from: Capntastic on August 29, 2010, 06:27:09 pm
What if we're all just hairs in a dwarve's beard, man...

And that dwarf...is a hair on some other dwarf's beard.  WOAH.
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Do you always look at it in ASCII?

You get used to it, I don't even see the ASCII.  All I see is blacksmith, miner, goblin.

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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2010, 07:13:12 am »
Quote from: Vercingetorix on August 29, 2010, 11:47:52 pm
Quote from: Capntastic on August 29, 2010, 06:27:09 pm
What if we're all just hairs in a dwarve's beard, man...

And that dwarf...is a hair on some other dwarf's beard.  WOAH.

And to anyone who's going to ask the obvious question - don't even bother, it's dwarfs all the way down.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2010, 07:16:27 am »
the problem with theories like that is that they go nowhere towards explaining the nature of the world, even if true, it simply leaves an exterior universe(the one in which said computer exists) that has no explanation.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2010, 07:18:47 am »
I'm sorry I just can't help myself... There is no spoon.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2010, 07:26:51 am »
Urist McNeo cancels eat soup: Job item lost/misplaced.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2010, 08:30:46 am »
It's just an interpretation of the universe, another race might say it's like an eco-system or something. The universe could be compared to a computer very easily because the functions a computer performs are similar to those that part of existence/the universe/time-space performs to achieve their purposes.
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Quote from: V12US on August 30, 2010, 07:26:51 am
Urist McNeo cancels eat soup: Job item lost/misplaced.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2010, 10:14:14 am »
Quote from: V12US on August 30, 2010, 07:26:51 am
Urist McNeo cancels eat soup: Job item lost/misplaced.

Urist McNeo cancels Hack in Underpants: Interrupted by white rabbit.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2010, 02:45:21 pm »
Janglur McUrist cancels drink:  Too Insane.
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Re: The Birth of a Universe
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2010, 04:01:13 pm »
Quote from: V12US on August 30, 2010, 07:26:51 am
Urist McNeo cancels eat soup: Job item lost/misplaced.

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